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Now before we get into anything, ladies, no scratching, no spitting and no tattling to mummy.

Eoin Colfer

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Eoin Colfer
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 14
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Wexford
Mummy
Ladies
Anything
Spitting
Scratching

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