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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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