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A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair.

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Heroines
Preferred
Villain
Always
Luring
Lair
Heroine

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