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Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

Robin McKinley

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Robin McKinley
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley
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Why do you tell me... so much? Luthe considered her. I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know-- He stopped.... Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.
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He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.
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Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.
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I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.
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