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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Something
Good
Marks
Whenever
Mark
Forget
True

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