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Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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Pain
Sentient
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Beasts
Soul
Cries
Need
Beast
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Souls
Cry
Garden

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