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Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

Scott Westerfeld

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Price
Personality
Inside
Beauty
Real

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