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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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