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I don’t know what I saw. It could’ve been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue.” “You’ve never sniffed glue!” “I’ve smelled glue,” Jamie said after a pause. “In art class.

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Sarah Rees Brennan
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: September 21
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