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She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Didn
Trees
Beautiful
Burning
Thought
Loneliness
Always
Silent
Like
Creatures
Cold
Eased
Tree
Bleak
Stars
Solitary

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