Chapter 11 (p. 130)
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He swore, pissed off, trying to keep the past in the past instead of stinking up the present.

— K. A. Bedford

What It Means

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About K. A. Bedford

Kenneth Adrian Bedford (born 1963), better known under the pseudonym of K. A. Bedford, is an Australian writer of science fiction.