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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Writer
LA
California
Really
Damaging
Guns
Shot
Gun
Shots
Gets
Dangerous
Even
Loom

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