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If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
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Montana
Funny
Knitting
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Caps
Much
Ducks
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Wondering
Farm
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Bran
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