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Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Persons
Heroes
Even
Hero
Time
Places
Like
Turn
Coyotes
Forget
Mechanics
Turns
Forgetting
Found
Mechanic
Keep
Unlikely

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