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The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.

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Meg Cabot
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 1
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Patricia Cabot
Jenny Carroll
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