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Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.

Karen Marie Moning

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Karen Marie Moning
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 1
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Grows
Grasp
Hands
Sooner
Come
Hang
Make
Faster
Shape
Avoid
Liminal
Shapes
Sucks
Grow
Midnight

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