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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

Terry Brooks

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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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Terence Dean Brooks
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