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Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Way
Understood
Life
Beyond
Fire
Words
Understand
Father
Apology
Thought
Sat
Music
Notion

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