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That's what marriage is good for it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser

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
Confess
Otherwise
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Fraser
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Jamie
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Sacraments

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