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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Awareness
Doesn
Past
Men
Extend
Plates
Dinner

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