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Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.

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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
Soldier
Commitment
Belief
Dies
Better
Never
Soldiers

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