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You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.

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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
Men
Bristles
Weave
Silk
Pigs
Anything
Make

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