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The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Moments
Warm
Night
Ground
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Light
Pages
Fell
Spring
Dawn
Stay
Turning
Strange
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Moment
Snow
Keep
Golden

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