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The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

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Terry Goodkind
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 17
Novelist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
Minds
Fear
Chases
Away
Shadows
Night
Fears
Shows
Ghost
Light
Shape
Mind
Shapes
Always
Shadow

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