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It's just the way things are. she shrugged. It's no one's fault. Or everyone's.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Shrugged
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Faults
Everyone
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Things

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