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We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe which means endless.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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Anne O'Brien
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