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I told them, he said in a clear, carrying voice, that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Giving
Daughter
Would
Told
Love
Clear
Powerful
Voice
Ends
Someone
Carrying
Give
Badly

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