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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
Beach
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Moments
Always
Time
Comforted
Surf
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Walked

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