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Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.

Erin Morgenstern

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Cases
Shower
Asks
Showers
Waiting
Museums
Ideas
Tea
Sometimes
Cups
People
Glass
Bottoms
Glasses
Patiently
Bottom
Lurking

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