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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Terry Brooks

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