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It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

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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
Night
Strikes
Particularly
Mountain
Hammer
Rock
Frost
Rocks
Hammers
Gets
Strike
Cold
Mountains
Stars
Desert

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