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Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Laurie Beth Halse
Body
Bees
Made
Fill
Something
Wanting
Things
Forever
Life
Gone
Ponder
Help
Sting
Helping
Pondering
Didn
Restless

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