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There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
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