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His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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