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Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food? I said, laughing. Don't want a lot, do you?

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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
Food
Love
Womanly
Sympathy
Laughing

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