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I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

Anne McCaffrey

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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
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Untoward
Something
Closes
World
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Comfort
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But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible
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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
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