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One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Different
Finding
Something
Completely
Oddest
Always
Knew
Crossed
Things
Growing
Bone
Looking
Grown
Thought
Believed
Truth
Bones
Back
Findings

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A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
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Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
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