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Twilight: Trick or Truth? “I’m the world’s most dangerous predator. Everything about me invites you in… I’m designed to kill… I wanted to kill you. I’ve never wanted a human’s blood so much in my life… Your scent, it’s like a drug to me. You’re like my own personal brand of heroin.” So says the handsome vampire, Edward Cullen, to his star-struck 17-year-old lover, Bella Swan, in the blockbuster Twilight series. What’s the deal with Twilight anyway? Vampires are just fiction, right? Actually… How It Began It all started one dark night – June 1, 2003 to be exact – when a virtually unknown Arizona stay-at-home mom named Stephenie Meyer had a mysterious dream. On her official Website, Meyer reports, “I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her