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Monkey bars, Annabeth said. I'm great at these. She leaped onto to the first rung and started swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.
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Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
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Richard Russell Riordan
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