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Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
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