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Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

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Katherine Applegate
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 9
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Katherine Alice Applegate
L. E. Blair
Katherine Kendall
Beth Kincaid
A. R. Plumb
Pat Pollari
K. A. Applegate
K. A. Applegate
Violent
Calculating
Passionate
Represented
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Cruel
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Somehow
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