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For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Take
Meaning
Choice
Flee
Days
Hide
Choices
Terror
Waiting
Indeed
Found
Save
Live
Wait
Without
Harder

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