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Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

Darren Shan

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Darren Shan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 2
Author
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London
England
D. B. Shan
Darren Dash
Darren Shan
Suffering
Another
Cowardly
Better
Guilt
Suffer
People
Lifetime
Rule
Land
Dies

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