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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
Lost
Way
Bitterness
Bitter
Leads
Anger
Road
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Hurt

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