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That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
Point
Ends
Live
Matter
Hard
Gets
Winning

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