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It feels like we should do something, he said. Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her on fire. Let her go out in a blaze of glory. Chubs raised an eyebrow. It's a minivan, not a Viking.

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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