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We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

R. A. Salvatore

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R. A. Salvatore
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: January 20
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Science Fiction Writer
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Leominster
Massachusetts
Robert Anthony Salvatore
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