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Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.
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Wenna followed us out. You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again, she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. You'll come back? Of course, Goodwin said. But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the
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You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
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Tortall and the Queens Riders!
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