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

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Gift
Paranoia
Stressed
Survivor
Terrified
Burden

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I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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