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We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.

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