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

Gregory Maguire

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

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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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