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The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Firsts
Evolved
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Sharing
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Readers
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Necessity
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