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Yael
Yael Yael carries a quality of sudden, decisive, and lethal capability housed within an apparently domestic exterior — a name for characters who are underestimated precisely because they play roles (host, wife, woman) that others do not perceive as threatening, and who act with absolute resolve when the moment demands it.
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