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If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.
Robert Jordan
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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
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Military Officer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
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She’s not for you, nor you for her at least, not in the way you both want.
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