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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Makes
Past
Artifice
Persons
Eats
Person
Construct
Different
Constructs
Left
Away

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