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Wolf Frankula

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80. "Where Am I?"

Mon Jan 25, 2016, 01:36 AM

Jan 2016

"In the Village."
"What do you want?"
"Information."
"You won't get it."
"By hook or by crook we will."
"Who are you?"
"The new Number 2."
"Who is Number 1?"
"You are Number 6."

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