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The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.

Kelley Armstrong

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Kelley Armstrong
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
Novelist
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city of Sudbury
Sarah
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Slaughter
Tirade
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Towers
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Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you suppose to be dead? Currently being chased by two Cabals? You're waltzing around Vancouver, eating in restaurants? (Ash)Hell no, Corey said. I never waltz. I do the fox-trot sometimes though.
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