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Are you the dart? he said. Are you the knife? The fuse? She said (though he wasn't convinced): My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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