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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.
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Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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