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As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.

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Kim Harrison
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 1
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Midwest
Wyoming
Dawn Cook
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I want…” he said, then hesitated, taking a breath of air and lifting his chin. “I want one pure thing in my life,” he said loudly, his voice ringing in the red-tinted air. “I want one thing I can point to and say, ‘That is good, and it’s a part of me.
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Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how.
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