“I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.”
I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.”

— Suzanne Collins , book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

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American television writer and novelist 1962

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