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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
Strange
Sense
Hard
Time
Priorities
Rock
Rocks

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