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Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

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Kim Edwards
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Killeen
Texas
World
Shape
Letters
Shapes
Told
Responsibility
Perfect
Father
Make
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