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Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world.

Karen Marie Moning

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Karen Marie Moning
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 1
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Critical
Shapes
Hope
Nothing
Thing
World

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