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Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Taking
Stripping
Sort
Lawn
Futons
White
Lawns
President
Bare
Futon
House
Entered
Mowing
Like
Trash
Bran
Apartment
Mattress
Watching
Mattresses

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