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Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Always
Smartass
Nope
Asleep
Sometimes

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