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When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response in living things, let alone inanimate objects.

Kelley Armstrong

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Kelley Armstrong
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
Novelist
Writer
city of Sudbury
Sarah
Thinking
Scared
Invoked
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Response
Inanimate
Objects
Glanced
Started
Shake
Alone
Chair
Living
Chairs
Things
Shakes
Think
Rarely

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