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Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.

Lisa Gardner

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Lisa Gardner
Age: 54
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Alicia Scott
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Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
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