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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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Comfort
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Untoward
Something
Closes

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