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There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.
Jim Butcher
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Jim Butcher
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: October 26
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But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, BOO!
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Demonreach only wants Harry to see what's going on. Why doesn't it just marry him? Thomas muttered under his breath. It sort of did, I said. My brother the... geosexual?
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