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No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Enough
Calling
Believe
Truly
Deep
Unless
Name
Names
Bites
Dark
Confident
Part
Noise

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