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...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

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Megan Whalen Turner
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Young
Eating
Book
Sitting
Men
Feet
People
Seen
Books
Chocolates
Reading
Furniture
Woman
Chocolate
Two
Invisible

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