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They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

Kami Garcia

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Kami Garcia
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 25
Artist
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Lost
Passings
Death
Worried
Littles
Shouldn
Little
Passing
Harder
Game
Call
Leveling
Games
Begun

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