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You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
Steve Rune Lundin
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Loitering
Hesitating
Citizen
Citizens
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