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I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.
Ernest Cline
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Ernest Cline
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 29
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Ernest Christy Cline
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Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
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I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.
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I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.
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Lights, I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.
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My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
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Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.
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