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All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

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Carrie Vaughn
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 28
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I punched to line. Yes? What? Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.
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I looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them. Thank you for believing in me I said and maybe they understood and maybe they didn't.
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I grinned at him. 'Jealous?' He grinned right back. 'That's a trick question. If I say yes you'll accuse me of being paranoid and unreasonable, and if I say no you'll make some defensive crack about how I don't think you're worth getting jealous over.' This is what I got for hooking up with a lawyer.
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Stupid, fragile mortals.
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