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Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Open
Secret
Keep
Wanted
Really
Option
Attack
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Keeping

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