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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Yardsticks
Points
Granted
High
Taken
Without
Sometimes
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