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Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…

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You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

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I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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Mary Downing Hahn

Mary Downing Hahn

Born: December 9, 1937 (age 87)
Bio: Mary Downing Hahn is an American writer of young adult novels and former school librarian. She is known for many books such as Stepping On The Cracks and Wait Till Helen Comes. She published her first book in 1979 and has since written over twenty novels.
Known for:
  1. Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story (1986)
  2. Deep and Dark and Dangerous (2007)
  3. All the Lovely Bad Ones (2008)
  4. The Old Willis Place (2004)
  5. The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story (1989)

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