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You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason? I was hungry, allowances should be made.

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Gail Carriger
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 4
Archaeologist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Bolinas
California
Hungry
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