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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: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
Novelist
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Free
Reward
Time
Dawn
Life
Gods
Rewards
Spent
Illusion
Dies
Working
Midnight

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