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Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Without
Across
Mattress
Arms
Mattresses
Grace
Aching
Wasn
Underneath
Went
Turning
Hand
Thrown
Hands
Lays
Light
Bed

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