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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster? Everything.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Everything
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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