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She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.

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Robin McKinley
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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Ohio
Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley
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