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He was not as soft as when I'd first met him, not as young, but the angles of his face, his quick gestures, the way he sucked in his lower lip to think before going on - I was in love with all of it.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Firsts
Quick
First
Soft
Going
Lower
Way
Lips
Love
Mets
Angles
Think
Face
Sucked
Thinking
Faces
Angle
Young
Gestures

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