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My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Parents
Needed
Parent
Dies
Always
Careful
Decided

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