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af5309d
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Pain is a byproduct of life. That's the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That's true for everyone. But if you don't face the pain and the suck, you don't ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.
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pain
life
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Jim Butcher |
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3d9772b
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I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.
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Jim Butcher |
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e8a12d9
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EASTER HAS BEEN CANCELED - THEY FOUND THE BODY
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easter
jim-butcher
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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ee1275f
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Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
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normal
snafu
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Jim Butcher |
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3f7eb78
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If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
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humor
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Jim Butcher |
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6c7c6cd
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A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two... succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.
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humor
lara-raith
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Jim Butcher |
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fefa230
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Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her. Gggrrrr rawf arrrgggrrrrarrrr," I said. Mouse gave me an impatient glance, and somehow--I don't know if it was something in his body language or what--I became aware that he was telling me to sit down and shut up or he'd come over and make me. I sat down. Something in me really didn't like that idea, but when I looked around, I saw that everyone else had done it..
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humor
mouse
leanansidhe
karrin-murphy
sanya
thomas-raith
molly-carpenter
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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06cec1b
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I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.
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humor
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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6947a65
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That's the problem with you nearly immortal types," I said. "You couldn't spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus."
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humor
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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e473ad5
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How long have you been a Wiccan?' 'A what?' 'A pagan. A witch.' 'I'm not a witch,' I said, glancing out the door. 'I'm a wizard.' Sanya frowned. 'What is the difference?' 'Wizard has a Z' He looked at me blankly. 'No one appreciates me.' I muttered.
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humor
wizard
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Jim Butcher |
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c29b2e8
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There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.
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fury
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Jim Butcher |
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083ed05
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You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap," he said promptly. "Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love." And the greatest of these is love," I finished. "That's from the Bible." First Co..
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humor
love
thomas-raith
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Jim Butcher |
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2451144
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Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?" "Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, I said solemnly, and frosting of white."
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Jim Butcher |
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7b4ba30
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You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute."
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humor
molly-carpenter
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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4eaafc6
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Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?
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humor
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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a14b213
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You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.
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dresden-files
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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9bcc3b5
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Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!
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Jim Butcher |
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f400117
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It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done. I turned around and ran like hell.
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humor
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Jim Butcher |
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44dffc0
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Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.
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life
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Jim Butcher |
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0f52f3a
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If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.
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humor
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Jim Butcher |
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fc73b7f
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Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.
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humor
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Jim Butcher |
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d95dd7c
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Karrin." She looked up at me. She looked very young somehow. "Remember what I said yesterday," I said. "You're hurt. But you'll get through it. You'll be okay." She closed her eyes tightly. "I'm scared. So scared I'm sick." "You'll get through it." "What if I don't?" I squeezed her fingers. "Then I will personally make fun of you every day for the rest of your life," I said. "I will call you a sissy girl in front of everyone you know, tie f..
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friendship
karrin-murphy
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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be09341
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Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation.
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humor
waldo-butters
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Jim Butcher |
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9542881
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Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells.
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humor
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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a2a7704
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I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.
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humor
life
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Jim Butcher |
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b485906
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You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.
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motivation
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Jim Butcher |
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1aaf964
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Did you really save the world ?... - Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.
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Jim Butcher |
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b70faed
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Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black magic is so easy--it comes from lust, from fear and anger, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. The sort I do is harder. It comes from something deeper than that, a truer and purer source--harder to tap, harder to keep, but ultimately more elegant, more powerful. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of wh..
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magic
hope
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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9d82480
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Bite me, faerie fruitcake.
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humor
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Jim Butcher |
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eb657d6
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Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.
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intellect
instinct
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Jim Butcher |
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cb37c41
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I realized then what had happened. She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into great, gaunt, long-legged hounds. Wonderful!" Lea said, pirouetting upon one toe, laughing. "Come, children!" And she leapt off into the jungle, nimble and swift as a doe. A bunch of us dogs stood around for a moment, just sort of staring at one another. And Mouse said, in what sounded to me like perfectly understandable English, "That ."
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humor
mouse
leanansidhe
karrin-murphy
sanya
thomas-raith
molly-carpenter
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Jim Butcher |
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0009a65
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No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for what might be very good reasons. They make choice after choice, and none of them is slaughtering roomfuls of saints, or murdering hundreds of baby seals, or rubber-room irrational. But it adds up. And then one day they look around and realized ..
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good-and-evil
villains
dresden-files
evil
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Jim Butcher |
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39c258d
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Like "love," "hope" is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer."
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quote
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Jim Butcher |
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e315de2
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There's power in the touch of another person's hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There's a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands. "It comes from our very earliest memories, when we all come into the world blinded by light and color, deafened by riotous sound, flailing in a suddenly cavernous space without any way of orienting ourselves, shuddering with cold, emptied with hunger, and justifi..
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life
love
wisdom
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Jim Butcher |
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aa9a6a7
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I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.
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vanity
thomas-raith
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Jim Butcher |
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434058c
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Kincaid! Bolshevik Muppet!
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Jim Butcher |
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84e6808
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I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.
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Jim Butcher |
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ec00f5d
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I don't believe in faeries!
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humor
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Jim Butcher |
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c243917
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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.
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twists
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Jim Butcher |
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2cb0c11
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I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has."
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knowledge
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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1cc6b67
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Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.
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sarcasm
harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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0281d0b
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There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now."
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Jim Butcher |
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6a845fa
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Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels."
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women
humor
karrin-murphy
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Jim Butcher |
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207d6df
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I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.
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humor
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Jim Butcher |