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free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
Novelist
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Working
Midnight
Free
Reward
Time
Dawn
Life
Gods
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Spent
Illusion
Dies

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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
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Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
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