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Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Outside
Pretty
Evil
Much
Like
Poisoned
Candy
Pleasant

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