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What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
Interrupted
Wishing
Kiss
Kissing
Grace
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