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Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Cruel
Wake
Harder
Follow
Thrice
Death
Inexorable
Hard
Tides
Love
Steel
Life
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