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He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
Languages
Wouldn
Dead
Language
Change
Enough
Long
Cared

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