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We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Naked
Pain
Jaws
Equally

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