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There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

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Marion Zimmer Bradley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1930
Born: June 3
Died: 1999
Died: September 25
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Science Fiction Writer
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Albany
New York
Morgan Ives
Miriam Gardner
John Dexter
Lee Chapman
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley
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