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We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Terry Brooks

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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Terence Dean Brooks
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