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Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

Jim Butcher

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Jim Butcher
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
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Emerge
Night
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Another
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Flesh
Light
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Terrible
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