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Mercy, he said,in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Working
Near
Fighting
Fairs
Devils
Back
Fair
Vampires
Every
Mercy
Equals
Time
Rivers
Demons
Devil
Demon
Fight
Vampire
Worry
River

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