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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Paolo Bacigalupi
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 6
Environmentalist
Fantasy Author
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Paonia
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Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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