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I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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