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I'm going to find whoever is responsible for me sleeping out side with outside without pillows and kick them in the shins!-Enna

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Sides
Pillow
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Kick
Find
Sleeping
Without
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Going
Whoever
Responsible
Shins
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Enna
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Pillows

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