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To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying

Mercedes Lackey

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
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This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)
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