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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Lives
Witch
Music
Walls
Firsts
Iron
First
Stone
Heart
Stones
Fettered
Mind
Musician
Tinker
Never
Wall
Confine
Cold
Binds

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