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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
May
Dozen
Throwing
Chinese
Sticks
Bones
Stones
Break
Stars
Stitches

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