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Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
World
Least
Grows
Brain
Belief
Everyone
Hemmed
Born
Programmed
Place
Beliefs
Trying
Grow

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