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Why do you like books so much?” he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. “You never know what you’ll learn when you open one. And if it’s a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.

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Wendy Mass
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 22
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Livingston
New Jersey
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Window
Without
Faces
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Much
Learn
Taking
Never
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Fall
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Miles

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