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Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

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
Always
Truer
Safer
Assuming
Usually
Worst

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