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I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.

Suzanne Collins

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Suzanne Collins
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 10
Executive Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Hartford
Connecticut
Suzanne Marie Collins
Suzanne Collins
Around
Slides
Trying
Wrapped
Disoriented
Make
Reads
Bracelet
Mentally
Curl
Smaller
Wrist
Entirely
Curls
Disappear
Wrists
Silence
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