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She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Much
Wondered
Depression
Despair
Harder
Hope

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