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Those Grimm brothers, she said with a sigh, they'll never amount to anything. And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

Vivian Vande Velde

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Vivian Vande Velde
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Rochester
New York
Right
Sigh
Never
Brothers
Writers
Became
Brother
Amount
Anything
Ever
Grimm

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