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Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look, she said. No, David said. It changes the way you think.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Think
Changes
Thinking
Becoming
Pretty
Doesn
Change
Look
Looks
Way
David

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