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You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.
Jeff VanderMeer
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Jeff VanderMeer
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: July 7
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bellefonte
Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer
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Silence creates it's own violence.
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My singing ability is zilch.
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