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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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New Orleans
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Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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