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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
Lloyd Alexander
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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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