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It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your side, holding your hand, and smiling sweetly on one and all.

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Simon R. Green
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 25
Author
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Bradford-on-Avon
Wiltshire
Simon Richard Green
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Accompanied
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