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You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
Novelist
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Canker
Obnoxious
Blossom
Somewhere
Else
Ooze

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