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in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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New Jersey
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