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The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as both the hidden Jew and the girl slept, hand to shoulder. They breathed. German and Jewish lungs.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Hidden
Slept
Girl
Shoulders
Stairs
Hands
Looked
Lungs
Sweet
Shoulder
Scrawled
Wall
German
Magnificently
Stood
Jagged
Hand
Jewish
Breathed
Practice
Jew
Childlike
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