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I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

Kristin Hannah

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Jack
Prize
Boxes
Cracker
Relationship
Insomniac
Find
Crackers
Many
Prizes
Crumbling
Lately

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