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The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.

Kim Harrison

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Kim Harrison
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
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Midwest
Wyoming
Dawn Cook
Head
Listened
Whatever
Edge
Sound
Gentle
Words
Edges
Given
Became
Drug
Bathed
Consciousness
Hovering
Blood
Oblivion

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