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Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones.

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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Teheran
Judith Rumelt
Change
Mortality
Many
Royal
Think
Bones
Thinking
Flesh
Stones
Sleep
Within
Heap
Fear
Behold

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