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Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
Author
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Military City
USA
Richard Russell Riordan
Jr.
Richard Russell Riordan Jr
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Eighty
Swimming
Riding
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Letters
Pages
Started
Circling
Head
Eighties

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