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Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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