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My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.

Katherine Applegate

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Katherine Applegate
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 9
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Katherine Alice Applegate
L. E. Blair
Katherine Kendall
Beth Kincaid
A. R. Plumb
Pat Pollari
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Littles
Glass
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