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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

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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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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