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Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Handful
Stayed
Sane
Deeds
Chaos
Noble
Maybe
Wartime
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