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I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace's name.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Pain
Remembered
Lost
Clearly
Felt
Loss
Moments
Single
Part
Grace
Remember
Name
Made
Names
Shifting
Moment
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