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Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

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
Saws
Looking
Another
Two
Every
Blamed
Locked
Evening
Loneliness

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