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Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

Steven Erikson

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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
Steve Rune Lundin
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Malicious
Subtlety
Works
Brain
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