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We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Different
Make
Never
Love
Interchangeable
People
Ethan
Decide
Two
Doe

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