I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, afte…

Rick Yancey
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I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop. ✨ Rick Yancey (2010). The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo, p.28, Simon and Schuster
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