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I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.

Walter Mosley

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Walter Mosley
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 12
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