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The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Meditating
Generally
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Wrong
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