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I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.
Kelley Armstrong
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Kelley Armstrong
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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city of Sudbury
Sarah
Fool
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