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Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Arms
Dead
Shay
Turn
Drifting
Pretty
Dropped
Middle
Board
Turns
Boards
Stopped
Late

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