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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Dammit
Worse
Fate
Death

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