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Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Never
Survival
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Perhaps
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Saying
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Discomfort

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