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Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?

Kristin Cashore

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Leave
Live
Without
Heart
World
Determined

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