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When does it happen? It already has, Calla replied. Her eyes opened and fixed on Blue. And it hasn't yet. Time' circular, chicken. We use the same parts of it over and over. Some of us more than others.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Happens
Parts
Callas
Doe
Blue
Circular
Time
Already
Replied
Happen
Chicken
Eyes
Chickens
Eye
Opened
Use
Hasn
Others
Fixed

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