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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
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