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Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

Terry Goodkind

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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
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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan
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