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I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

Sara Gruen

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Sara Gruen
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Vancouver
British Columbia
Fall
Falling
Elbows
Left
Quickly
Wrists
Light
Arms
Pencil
Writing
Room
Pencils
Rooms
Handed
Scan
Hair
Writes
Catherine
Face
Silver
Elbow
Faces
Brown
Wrist

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