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It was as if I had thought all along I was a complete picture and he had revealed I was a puzzle and had taken me apart and put me back together again.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
Back
Revealed
Apart
Complete
Picture
Along
Taken
Thought
Puzzle
Together
Puzzles

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