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There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Live
Things
Afterward
Walk
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