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Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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