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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

Robin Hobb

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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
Stories
Trick
Wanted
Tricks
Writing
Cat
Think
Went
Treating
Thinking
Story
Halloween
Black
Trash
Write
Witch
Next
Dressed

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