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I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

Orson Scott Card

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Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
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Science Fiction Writer
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Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
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