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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
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