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It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.

Shannon Hale

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Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Look
Pork
Come
Barrels
Nothing
Prince
Matter
Salt
Looks
Seem
Trader
Think
Doesn
Wagon
Thinking
Seems
Wagons
Care
Traders

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