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I'll scream! Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm you've got good lungs.

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
Certainly
Hear
Next
Farm
Good
Lungs
Farms
Scream
Likely
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