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One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

Steven Erikson

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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
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