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When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

David Gemmell

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David Gemmell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1948
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: July 28
Author
Writer
London
England
David Andrew Gemmell
Ross Harding
Evil
Healers
Hope
Yearn
Cannot
Healer
Overcome
Overcoming
Begins
Kill
Dies

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