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After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

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Kim Edwards
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 4
Author
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Killeen
Texas
Away
Took
Keepers
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Months
Psychic
Really
Memories
Psychics
World
Turn
Sink
Sort
Shut
Space
Memory
Turns
Daughter
Write
Internet
Cloister

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