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As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.

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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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