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Cinnamint Bloom was born in 1972 to hippie parents who believed the world was about to change. She grew up wild and loud-magenta hair, metal concerts, a body that never let her down. She was twenty-two when she woke up wrong. Multiple sclerosis. An uninvited guest that moved into her body and would not leave. For sixteen years, she fought it. Raged at it. Treated it like an enemy to be vanquished, a curse to be lifted, a war to be won. And for sixteen years, she lost. Then she tried something different. She started talking to the pain. The Cloak That Would Not Leave is told in two voices: Cinnamint's and Pain's. One is a woman learning to live in a body that has betrayed her. The other is something ancient and patient, older than bone, summoned by signals it did not choose-trying to understand why it is hated for doing the only thing it knows how to do. This is not a story about healing. There is no cure, no breakthrough, no fairy tale ending where the curse is lifted and the princess is restored. This is a story about what happens when you stop fighting a war you can never win. When you learn to coexist with something you cannot escape. When survival itself becomes a form of grace. For everyone who wears a cloak they did not choose. You are not alone.

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N. S. Streets writes dark fairy tales for readers who never stopped believing in the space under the bed. He spent twenty years writing in the quiet hours-the time between midnight and dawn when the stories come alive. Now, at forty, he's keeping a promise to someone he loved: to stop writing in the dark and start sharing the light. He lives in the Midwest with his wife, three children, and fourteen cats-thirteen black ones named after his favorite authors, and a tabby named Bobby Singer who sits on his shoulders while he writes.

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