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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.

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Maria V. Snyder
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Care
Endure
Better
Girls
Nothing
Poetry
Things
Listening
Halfhearted
Think
Says
Grinned
Thinking
Enemy
Offering
Girl
Torture
Sense
Enemies

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