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Books are like your children. They take nine months to write the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Edna Buchanan

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Edna Buchanan
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: March 16
Journalist
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Paterson
New Jersey
World
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