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Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.
Laini Taylor
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Laini Taylor
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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Chico
California
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