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The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame. Sanya to Dresden
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