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For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

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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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