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How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

Brian Herbert

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Brian Herbert
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 29
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Brian Patrick Herbert
Children
Men
Remembered
Measure
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