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I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself.

Diana Gabaldon

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Diana Gabaldon
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 11
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Williams
Arizona
Diana J. Gabaldon Perez
Hold
Rotting
Understand
Thighs
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Bull
Still
Kitten
Like
Bulls
Shirt
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Spread
Plow

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