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Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Robin Hobb

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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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