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How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme. Bizarre and adorable? Just like you. With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Story
Bells
Force
Invest
Keep
Nurse
Adorable
Stories
Pockets
Nursery
Trying
Fairy
Rhyme
Really
Rings
Toes
Like
Tales
Tale
Beginning
Bizarre

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