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Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Montana
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Darling
Guests
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Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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