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Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?” Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. “Oh, no, Mam!” he said. “It’s worse. He’s brought a lawyer!

Diana Gabaldon

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Diana Gabaldon
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 11
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Williams
Arizona
Diana J. Gabaldon Perez
Come
Lawyer
Anxiously
Brought
Pistol
Worse
Pistols
Asked
Wildly
Wind
Sword
Hair
Shook
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