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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
Musician
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Samuel M. Key
Witchery
Wizardry
Merely
Capable
Word

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