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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Beauty
Though
Away
Littles
Little
Contemptuous
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Vital
Something
Contempt
Always
Trade

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