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Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Would
Loved
Wore
Eyes
Sat
Face
Blank
Faces
Opened
Eye
Slowly
Back
Kiss
Ever
Kissing
Cole
Something
Expression
Mattered

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