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If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

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Marisha Pessl
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 26
Writer
Clarkston
Michigan
Astonishing
Showed
Scribbled
Relevant
Napkin
Bible
Napkins
Family
Cocktail
Words
Culturally
Cocktails
Proclaim

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Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
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