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As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Handed
Scar
Bags
Buried
Memories
Throbbed
Wrist
Wrists
Scars

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