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I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Tally
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