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My childhood was filled with dreams of other worlds.
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I liked to imagine that Saturn was my true home.
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I started high school (gymnasium) in Copenhagen.
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As a teen, I worked on my grandfather's ranch. I milked cows.
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I trained my own horse on the ranch. |
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I finished high school in Beverly Hills.
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I started writing about the empire in college. My first story was about the hero Foske's attempt to overthrow Emperor Xublian with the help of Riemis Whorl. I recorded a friend reading excerpts. |
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I started college planning to major in math or physics.
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After a disagreement with my advisor about combining math and literature in story-generating computer programs, I dropped out and moved to New York City, where I subsisted catching fish. |
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I returned to Beverly Hills for a while to run an art gallery.
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I did paintings on commission. |
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I worked at a number of jobs, the last of them as a COBOL programmer. |
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I quit working to spend time with my kids. |
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In the 80's, I got an IBM XT Computer and started to program games as well as story-generating programs.
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A descendant of the story-generating programs I'd been working on since college appeared in the Computer Recreations column of Scientific American. |
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After my kids started middle school, I worked as an artist decorating furniture in a children's store. With the kids in college, I took over the store and called it Bonniebug.
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My brother and I made a CD of songs of the Galactic Empire. |
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When my five year lease was up, I closed the store and celebrated by visiting Japan with my daughter. |
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After a quick course in scuba, my daughter and I visited Australia. |
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When I turned sixty, I took up road racing.
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