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I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Grace
Cranes
Wish
Folded
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Bye
Made
Cure
Good
Cures
Paper
Thousand
Memories
Crane

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