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I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
Hands
Ideas
Drowning
Save
Hand
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Water
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Sense

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