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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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