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Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

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Robert Cormier
Age: 75 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 17
Died: 2000
Died: November 2
Author
Journalist
Writer
Bay State
Robert Edmund Cormier
Awful
Planets
Silence
Cities
Stars
Plummeted
Earth
Tilted
Opened
Fell

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