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I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
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Butte
Montana
Stupid
Dead
Dies
Thought
Without
Taking

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Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.
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