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Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies. He grinned. No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry.
Maria V. Snyder
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Maria V. Snyder
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
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