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You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Destruction
Freedom
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Things
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Destroying

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