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She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five.

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Kevin Hearne
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: December 9
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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AZ
Mach
Switched
Embarrassment
Ecstasy
Five

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