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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.

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