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Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.

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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
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Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Military City
USA
Richard Russell Riordan
Jr.
Richard Russell Riordan Jr
Everything
Take
Baboon
Baboons
Medicine
Luck
Else

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