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Elena Sands

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Elena Sands is originally from west Texas. She has lived in various places around the world, including Hawaii, which was the inspiration for many of the characters and locations in her first novel. She currently lives in a Midwestern state with her family and teaches math to high school students.

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	Heaven's Waiting Room Has Lousy Magazines 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Squelch! The Second Annual Journal of the Bowling Green Writers’ Workshop: Utopia, Dystopia by Bowling Green Writers' Workshop, L.S. Veith, Samuel Newman 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Today President Trump held a meeting with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. During the meeting President Trump was supposed to address Russian meddling in our elections in 2016 and the ongoing investigation by our justice department. Televised portions of the interviews show President Trump supporting President Putin and sidelining the findings of our intelligence departments. The resp Read more of this blog post »

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Elena’s Quotes

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

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