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Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
Power
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World
Monarch
Monarchs
Robes
Fancy
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Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.
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