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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Propriety
Dolls
Offended
Tea
Watched
Certainly
Almost
Bookshelf
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