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Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Brain
Talking
Things
World
Surge
Fixed
Dying

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