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„I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“ She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough to slip out through the hall, despite the lingering temptation to stay.

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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
Writer
Long
Tricks
Smiles
Forgiving
Hall
Despite
Slips
Shawl
Laughing
Halls
Distracting
Stay
Trick
Vanishes
Attention
Stealing
Lingering
Simple
Forgive
Laughs
Enough
Temptation
Slip

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