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They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

Shannon Hale

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Made
Hold
Good
Nice
Never
Words
Life
Together
Rubbed
Persons
Weren
Person
Bones
Feel
Died
Feels
Lived

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