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Adam Axler is a proud Clevelander. He has bartended at B-Dubs, worked as a firefighter/medic in Mentor, Ohio, and driven ambulances in New York from Yonkers to the World Trade Center. After almost two decades as a physician assistant, he has spent the last ten years as the happy owner of Collectible Science Fiction (collectiblesciencefiction.com), an online bookstore that makes many people happy as well. ...more

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