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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Kings
High
Keeper
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Keepers
Assistants
Pigs
King
Thus

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