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After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

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
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