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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
World
Sadness
Misery
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Must
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Saddest

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Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.
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Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.
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If you would rise, do so alone.
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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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