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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Regrets
Midnight
Fixed
Regret
Late
Trouble
Night
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