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You're a Nought and I'm a Cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace...That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had and all the things we're never going to have.

Malorie Blackman

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Malorie Blackman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 8
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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