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Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Days
Lying
Stabbed
Three
Dictionary
True
Worrying
Persons
Guts
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Bed
Heart
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That's interesting, Bitterblue said. You think a conscience requires fear?
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