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Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Courses
Unimaginable
Course
Feared
Dies
Threshold
Death
Unknown
Certain
Across
World
Step
Steps
Wonder
Awaited

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