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Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Mommy
Lamb
Lambs
Wolf
Honey
Watches
Thinking

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