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To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
Literature
Genocide
May
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Doors
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Lestat
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Annihilate
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Whirlwind

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