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It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. And I, Harry Dresden, am that man, I stated.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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