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It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Darkness
Sized
Child
Dough
Taken
Cookie
Though
Sheet
Someone
Cookies
Children
Sheets
Made
Shape
Cutter
Shapes
Cutters

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