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She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Given
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Truth
Wouldn
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Taking
Heart
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Causes
Known
Pain

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