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She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.

Kami Garcia

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Kami Garcia
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 25
Artist
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Trying
Couldn
Looming
Work
Hear
Shattering
Either
Refused
Word
Breaking
Lasts
Noise
Last
Hearts
Didn
Shadow
Heart
Gave

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