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I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Bearing
Quarrels
Revenge
Witness
Risk
Dies
Thought
Backs

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