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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Lately
Hold
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