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I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

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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
Todd
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Anyway
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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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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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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