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There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

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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
Nothing
Thin
Even
Exists
Piece
Paper
Pieces
Side
Sides
Two

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