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Here there be monster. Bob whispered, half hysterically. Run! Run already!

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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
Actor
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Independence
Missouri
Hysterically
Whispered
Bob
Monster
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