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Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

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
Writer
Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Mines
Mine
Anything
Heart
Whimpering
Clutches
Clutch
Familiar
Amazing

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