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Happiness isn't something this island yields easily the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Easily
Ground
Sparse
Sun
Rocky
Happiness
Yields
Something
Flourish
Island
Islands
Yield

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