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There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Silence
Hear
Cracking
Girl
Eyelashes
Fall
Blink
Great
Crystals
Never
Ice
Falling
Girls

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