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All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
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the United States of America
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