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How many people long for that past, simpler, and better world, I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

R. A. Salvatore

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R. A. Salvatore
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: January 20
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Novelist
Role-Playing Game Designer
Science Fiction Writer
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Leominster
Massachusetts
Robert Anthony Salvatore
R.A. Salvatore
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