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I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me.

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
Closer
Gods
Dying
Bring
Death

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