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It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.
Karen Russell
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Karen Russell
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: July 10
Novelist
University Teacher
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Miami
Florida
Icarus
Fierce
Purity
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Alive
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