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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Runs
Misery
Quite
Funny
Running
Else
Grin
Someone
Spit
Nothing
Sink

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