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The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.

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W. P. Kinsella
Age: 81 †
Born: 1935
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
William Patrick Kinsella
Law
Rope
Strong
Occasion
Kind
Bent
Like
Occasions
Useful
Kinds
Shapes
Depending
Necessary
Twisted

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