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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Field
Moved
Green
Blue
Fields
Together
Diamonds
Diamond

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No one is exempt from grief.
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