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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Believe
Opposite
Believed
Opposites
Luck
Whatever

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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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