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For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Highland Park
Illinois
Learned
Storyteller
History
Tale
Ends
Legends
Part
Distant
May
Tales
Play
Witness
Every
Events
Shaping
Always
Goes
Legend

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