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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

Tanith Lee

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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
Roots
Flower
Hundred
Single
Sprung
Secretly
Root
Flowers
Loves

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