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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
Kate Atkinson
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Kate Atkinson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 20
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As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.
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The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.
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