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I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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