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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Quiet
Waiting
Lying
Next
Burial
Twin
Corpses
Twins

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