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Are you badly hurt? Hideously, said the king, without sounding injured at all. I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.

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Megan Whalen Turner
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Instant
King
Kings
Hideously
Stand
Outsides
Hurt
Insides
Become
Sounding
May
Injured
Without
Badly

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