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My friends call me by my name. You don't have any friends. I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.

Shannon Hale

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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