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I like all the things that make you monstrous.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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New Jersey
United States
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I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
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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.
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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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