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Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

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Terry Goodkind
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 17
Novelist
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Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
Wizards
Contradiction
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Exist
Reality
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Whole
Ninth
Wizard

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