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It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
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Relied
Start
Strangely
Feelings
Monday
Change
Gravity
Long
Findings
Something
Finding
Like
Worked
Disorienting
Longer
Mondays

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