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The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.
Laini Taylor
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Laini Taylor
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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