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I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
Matter
Disease
Never
Grace
Study
Knew
Fall
Death
Falls
Thought
Mercy
Back
Turned

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