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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
Reader
Worth
Perhaps
Stand
Saying
Another
Way
Discomfort
Never
Survival

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