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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

Annie Proulx

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Annie Proulx
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 22
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Journalist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Norwich
Connecticut
E. Annie Proulx
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Edna Annie Proulx
Edna Ann Proulx
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