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It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
War
Ashes
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Huge
Wasn
Fire
Drift
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