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... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.

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Kate Morton
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
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South Australia
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But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while remind folks it exists.
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That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.
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... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
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My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.
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She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've always chosen to believe the latter. After all, it's the librarian's one sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.
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Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
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