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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

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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
Enough
Adventure
Things
Glory
Love
Among
Life
Simply
Days
Beauty
Living
Given

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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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