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There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Persons
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Soul
Sad
Person
Slides
Unhappiness
Stick
Sticks
Cry
Tears
Slick

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