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It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

Ann Beattie

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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
Novelist
Professor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Life
Unobservant
Relatively
Daily
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