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In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

Brandon Mull

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Brandon Mull
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: November 8
Novelist
Writer
Utah
United States
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Inevitably
Distant
Mortals
Behave
Youth
Overtakes
Alone
Impossibly
Age
Nymphs
Seems
Adulthood

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