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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Electric
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Mutually assured destruction.
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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