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We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

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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
Raindrops
Ephemeral
Somewhere
Land
Fall

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