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I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.

Kristin Cashore

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Trying
Queen
Make
Queens
Good
Supposed
Life
Harder
Like
Hear
People
Littles
Little
Manipulating
Right
Nicer

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