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I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
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New Jersey
United States
Death
Fingers
Ecstacy
Hands
Wide
Startled
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Drown
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Wonder
Trash
Much
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Eyes
Skin
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Though
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Mouths

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