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The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
Novelist
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