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In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Evening
Bumping
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Evenings
Binge
Sullen
Stumbling

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