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The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

Janette Rallison

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Janette Rallison
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: April 1
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Pullman
Washington
C. J. Hill
Sierra St. James
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Fairy
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