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It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

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Brandon Mull
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: November 8
Novelist
Writer
Utah
United States
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Weird
Gets
Interesting
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Sense
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