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But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Worried
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