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We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

Robert Charles Wilson

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Robert Charles Wilson
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 15
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Science Fiction Writer
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Whittier
California
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Strangers
Seldom
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