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There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.

Jennifer Donnelly

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Jennifer Donnelly
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 29
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Novelist
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Port Chester
New York
Everything
Never
Heartbroken
Ghost
Lonely
Spirit

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