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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: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lincoln
Nebraska
Ends
Live
Matter
Hard
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Winning
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