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Goddamn you, Jacob said. There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.

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Robert Charles Wilson
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: December 15
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Science Fiction Writer
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Whittier
California
Goddamn
Damnation
Jacob
Forest
Forests
Heaven
Hive
Hives

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