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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

John M. Ford

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John M. Ford
Age: 49 †
Born: 1957
Born: April 10
Died: 2006
Died: September 25
Board Game Designer
Fictioneer
Novelist
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Role-Playing Game Designer
Science Fiction Writer
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East Chicago
Indiana
Michael J. Dodge
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