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With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Everything
Somehow
Shivering
Life
Seemed
Interruption
Empty
Interruptions
Pretty
Slightest
Future
Bubble
Perfect
Soap
Felt
Bubbles
Imperil
Reality
Fragile
Tenuous

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