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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

Robin Hobb

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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
Trained
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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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