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Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Suffering
Witnessing
Soul
Hostage
Human
Decay
Humans
Cruel
Must
Suffer
Hostages
Souls
Indignity
Drama
Stamped
Agree
Envelopes

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