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Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
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Leaving
Home
Problems
Play
Wasn
Battleship
Thing
Went
Chad
Alone
Notebook
War
Historically
Often
Armed
Used
Distraction

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