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it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Called
Guy
Found
Rusty
Ruins

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