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Harmless as a setting dove, he agreed. I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.

Diana Gabaldon

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Diana Gabaldon
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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Williams
Arizona
Diana J. Gabaldon Perez
Threat
Dove
Reach
Agreed
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Breakfast
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Settings
Within
Consequences
Though
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Outlander
Anything
Hungry
Stray
Come
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Harmless

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