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... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Looked
Stared
Revolution
Passings
Didn
Notice
Way
Fixed
Decades
Passing
Across
Striding
Destiny
Mounts

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