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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

Terry Brooks

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