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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Rubies
Mirror
Mirrors
Blood
Future
Look
Looks

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