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A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
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