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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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