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It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Little
Think
Thinking
Sideways
Mostly
Complicated
Understood
Littles

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