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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Grass
Dies
Thought
Best
Might
Way
Drown

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