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So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?

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Garth Nix
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: July 19
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Melbourne
Australia
Garth Richard Nix
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Walks
Heart
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Somebody
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Crypt
Trouble
Convenient
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