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He squeezed her hand. Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay. But what about everybody else? He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Hands
Guess
Squeezed
Come
Okay
Nodding
Trouble
Stared
Hand
Slowly
Everybody
River
Bigs
Wherever
Else
Rivers
Happens
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