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To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

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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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