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Created at 10/28/07 at 09:12 PM by Clint_Smith

One of the more notable events of my thirty years: meeting author Dan Simmons in Dayton, Ohio, in the summer of 2005. In the background, my stoic younger brother, Mitch (who I owe infinite gratitude to for introducing me to the author's novels back when the two of us were little boys) looks on and listens.