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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Equal
Joy
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
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