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The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Maker
Elders
Makers
Closer
Whenever
Known
Made
Things
Deferred

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