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No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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