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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
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Todd
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Anyway
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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff
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Living is struggling to do something impossible To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.
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The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.
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I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
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