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Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Blood
Darkening
Stars
Embers
Even
Diamonds
Like
Diamond
Afternoon
Yellow
Sister
Shoes
Thorny

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