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The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.

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Rachel Cohn
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Create
Rings
Dies
Desert
Suffering
Suffer
Live
Perfection
Real
Deal
Adapts
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Manufactured
People
Deals
Adapt
Struggle
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