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We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

Mark Lawrence

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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
Author
Novelist
the United States of America
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Trapped
Walls
Lived
Wall
Within
Lives
Fear
Slower

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