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She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.

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Megan Whalen Turner
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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