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In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
People
Shout
Whisper
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Head
Mother

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