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Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Underestimated
Scent
Often
Evocative

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And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.
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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
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