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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend. Headmistress Northcutt says. No, I say. Not at all. Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Headmistress
Mine
Moodiness
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Audrey
Longer
Exhausted
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Holiday
Impossible
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Winter

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