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You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then? I've a knife in my boot, she said, and then wondered, for a moment, if she could throttle a moose with her bare hands.
Kristin Cashore
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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
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