“Zack shook his head. "I am glad you aren't mine. You're going to be dead before you're forty."
"No," rumbled my husband's soft deep voice from the hallway. "I'm going to be dead before she's forty.”

— Patricia Briggs

Source: Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson

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American writer 1965

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