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My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

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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