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Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Blue
Gansey
Short
Sixteen
Knew
Eighteen
Maybe
Grade
Idea
Grades
Two
Twenty
Ideas
Twenties
Remedial
Finished
Eleventh

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