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You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Best
Enough
Wore
Made
Friend
Good
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World
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