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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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