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I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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