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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Heart
Laugh
Like
Laughing
Eyes
Looking
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Makes
Limbs
Feel
Mouth
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Mouths

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