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If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
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Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Firth
Colin
Wet
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