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She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.
She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.
Approximate author period: c. 1958 AD · modern
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- Cornelia Funke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1958 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1958; activity date not established; Wikidata Q57971, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57971 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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