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llmart

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14. I've been reading this for over a week now....

Reply to Paladin (Original post)

Thu Jun 26, 2014, 07:25 PM

Jun 2014

I am almost finished and parts of it are depressing to me because I'm feeling sorry for all this guy has gone through in his life. The prose is amazing though and it is very well written. Maybe summertime isn't the time to read something like this

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