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Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Army
Alphabet
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Paragraph
Words
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Language
Loyal
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Stories
Sentences
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Great
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Paragraphs
Letters
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