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Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
Author
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Military City
USA
Richard Russell Riordan
Jr.
Richard Russell Riordan Jr
Always
Emotion
Love
Beauty
Evil
War
Together
Human
Humans
Peaks
Good
Ugliness

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