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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.

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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
Mankind
Takes
Rights
Nature
Time
Destroyed

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