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So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris

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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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