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When we got to the moron who was sitting in the only path to the stairway, Adam caught my waist and lifted me over before stepping over the man himself. “Scott?” Adam said as we headed upstairs. “Yeah?” “Unless someone shoots you, skins you, and throws the results on the floor, I don’t want to see you lying in the walkway again.” “Yessir!

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Butte
Montana
Someone
Skins
Scott
Men
Caught
Moron
Yeah
Throws
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Lifted
Stairway
Unless
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Results
Headed
Waist
Path
Adam
Shoots
Lying
Floor
Upstairs

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