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What do you think it is? It could be anything from a lawn trimmer to a bomb, for all I know. I would never build a lawn trimmer, Myrnin said. What did the lawn ever do to me?

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Rachel Caine
Age: 58 †
Born: 1962
Born: April 27
Died: 2020
Died: November 1
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Julie Fortune
Roxanne Longstreet Conrad
Roxanne Longstreet
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