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Robert Charles Wilson

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We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father’s unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.
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Chapter 19 (p. 235)

 
Robert Charles Wilson

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