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She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Butte
Montana
Door
Doors
Anything
Never
Reinforced
Mundane
Bars
Held
Allowed

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