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I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Best
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Sometimes
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Mortal
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Mortals
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