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I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

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
Cosmos
Felt
Like
Misplaced
Maine
Belonged

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