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Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, I said solemnly, and frosting of white.

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Science Fiction Writer
Independence
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Frosting
Sprinkles
Solemnly
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Harry, Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, what you know about women, I could juggle.
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Go back,” he said. “Can’t. Stand aside?” “Can’t.” “So it’s like that?” I said. Fix exhaled. Then he nodded. “Yeah.” And for the first time in a decade the Winter Knight and Summer Knight went to war.
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