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You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Summer
Spring
Follow
Loss
Fall
Beautiful
Skin
Change
Skins
Winter

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As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.
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He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.
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