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People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
People
Destroy
Powerful
Given
Someone
Never
Would
Love
World
Anna

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