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To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Great
Make
Things
Expose
Safely
Dark
Left
Art
Soul

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