“Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.”

— Suzanne Collins , The Hunger Games

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American television writer and novelist 1962

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