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You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.

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
Forward
Wall
Looking
Running
Way
Backward
Walls

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