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Give me liberty or give me death. A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into.
Katherine Applegate
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Katherine Applegate
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 9
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Ann Arbor
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