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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Even
Forward
Call
Dark
Half
Read
Lost
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