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it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.
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She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
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Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
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