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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
Robert E. Howard
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Robert E. Howard
Age: 30 †
Born: 1906
Born: January 22
Died: 1936
Died: June 11
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Robert Ervin Howard
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Two-Gun Bob
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