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People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

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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
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