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My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

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Colleen McCullough
Age: 77 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 1
Died: 2015
Died: January 29
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Colleen Margaretta McCullough
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Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
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