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Your eyes are beautiful, he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches.

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Felt
Treetops
Beautiful
Rested
Patches
Suddenly
Warm
Sun
Eyes
Eye
Dappled

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