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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
Assassin
Assassins
Wet
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Missing
Boys
Sometimes
Deader

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