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Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.

Kathryn Lasky

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Kathryn Lasky
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: June 24
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Novelist
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Indianapolis
Indiana
E. L. Swann
Kathryn Lasky Knight
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Dolls
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