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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Power
Everything
Villains
Villain
Heroes
Till
Changes
Hero
Difficult

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Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.
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Goodbye, I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.
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