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If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.

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J. K. Rowling
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 31
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Executive Producer
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Yate
Gloucestershire
Joanne Jo Murray
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Robert Galbraith
Joanne Rowling
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Hermaphrodite
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