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... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

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