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It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Mortals
Broken
Way
Life
Fling
Emerge

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Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.
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