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Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Laughing
Windows
Khan
Boys
Insanity
Accusation
Home
Lady
Prone
Careful
Brick
Sake
Tower
Laugh
Bricks
Window
Towers
Whose
Skinny
Accusations

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