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He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
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Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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