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I long for another human face just as I fear it.

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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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He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.
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He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.
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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.
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My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily, he said. You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and consternation for some interval. I stared at him. You made a *joke*. I have heard this kind of thing may happen.
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