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You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Something
Lately
Quiet
Inside
Much

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