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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

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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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