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Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern.

Kelley Armstrong

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Kelley Armstrong
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
Novelist
Writer
city of Sudbury
Sarah
Games
Hide
Sense
Slow
Never
Patterns
Played
Seek
Beginning
Uptake
Game
Clay
Bits
Pattern

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