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His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

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Tahereh Mafi
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: November 9
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Connecticut
United States
Delight
Entertains
Lips
Soften
Smile
Seventeen
Name
Delights
Names
Spine
Word
Cracks
Years
Repeats
Like
Apart
Amuses

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