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But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Everyone
Born
Else
Anything
Programmed
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Expecting
Time
Weren
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Ugly
Beauty

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