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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.

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
Mistake
Apparently
Apologized
Stop
Panic
Raced
Left
Hadn
Speck
Away
Available
Specks
Enough
Died
Flicker
Even
Dying
Correctly
Made
Wasn
Faded
Life
Simply
Afterlife
Oops

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