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Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Else
Forgets
Dream
Harvard
Someone
Entirely
Might
Follow
Matter
Dreams
Says
Forget
Bailey
Father
Loudly

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