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The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Choked
Delicate
Flowers
Flower
Beautiful
Around
Everything

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