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Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Poet
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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