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Gravity was something you could beat all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.

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
Took
Rope
Struggle
Gravity
Bits
Ending
Girl
Hot
Even
Miserable
Something
Beat
Never
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Air
Hydrogen

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