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Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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