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Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

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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
Life
Seventh
Wizard
Wizards
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Past

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