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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Society
Worn
Conflagration
Order
Confusion
Cleared
Power
Relationships
Descend
Young
Generation
Survivors
Continue
Corpses
Dance
Emerge
Generations
Survivor
Started
Retreat

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