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Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?

Anne Rice

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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
Better
Knew
Unbreakable
Human
Seeing
Wither
Humans
Called
Exile
Heart
Forever
Beating
Made
Dies
Chain
World
Death
Chains
Form
Held
Presided
Body
Fast
Specter

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