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Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Thing
Long
People
Gather
Anywhere
Create
Around
Home

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