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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
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Ancestor
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
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