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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.

Lloyd Alexander

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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
Manhood
Chose
Hero
Sacrifice
Difficult
Enchantment

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