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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts things she could have said.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Word
Left
Things
Ghosts
Surrounded
Ghost
Standing
Alone

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