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I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.

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J. K. Rowling
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 31
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