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So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?

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Neal Stephenson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 31
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Camp Annapolis Junction
Neal Town Stephenson
Stephen Bury
Dragon
Nerve
Pink
Dragons
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Worried
Fart

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