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And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Dark
Night
Light
Quenched
Every
Watched
Never
Burning
Somewhere
Knew
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