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Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

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Eoin Colfer
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 14
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Wexford
Assumption
Fairy
Folks
Gibbering
Exist
Fowl
Existence
Artemis
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Proceed
Folk

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