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Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
Avoiding
Entire
Tried
Kill
Parents
Becoming
Bathtub
Parent
Bathtubs
Life
Wolf

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