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you just took on five million years of evolution again

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Evolution
Took
Millions
Five
Years
Million

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