Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemm…

Scott Westerfeld
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Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain. ✨ Scott Westerfeld (2010). Pretties, p.206, Simon and Schuster
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