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I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under.

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
Black
Luck
Upside
Tried
Ladder
Quiet
Ladders
Broken
Beneath
Horseshoe
Move
Walked
Horseshoes
Peace
Mirror
Nailed
Times
Cat
Seers
Moving
Mirrors
Nearby

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