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It seemed she was in a cathedral—if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone.

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Laini Taylor
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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Chico
California
Stones
Water
Dream
Cathedral
Earth
Cathedrals
Years
Weeping
Stone
Thousands
Seemed

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