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I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.
Mary Roach
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Mary Roach
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 20
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I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.
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