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The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Uncertainty
Breath
Breaths
Future
Nothing
Windowpane
Fog

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