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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.

Janet Morris

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Distance
Discipline
Close
Enemy
Hand
Keep
Hands
Partners
Enemies

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