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Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly the falling part, and not being sure what was at the b
Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly the falling part, and not being sure what was at the b
Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern
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- Robin McKinley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1952; activity date not established; Wikidata Q3064461, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3064461 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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