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Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.
Erin Morgenstern
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Erin Morgenstern
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 8
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Without
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I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
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I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.
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And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.
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