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...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.
Jim Butcher
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Jim Butcher
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.
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Thwart, I said. To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition. Sarissa said. It is today.
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