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She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Unable
Hurt
Stop
Child
Though
Children
Scab
Even
Scabs
Like
Picking

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