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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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Novelist
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Beethoven
Rain

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She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.
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