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There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
Steve Rune Lundin
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Fail
Lived
Failing
Struggle
Fall
Even
Odds
Overwhelming
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