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I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Sheen
Glass
Glasses
Looking
Water
Thought
Real

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