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MARGARET ATWOOD ~ MEANINGLESS WORDS
26 December 2011
Now we’re on my home ground, foreign territory. My throat constricts, as it learned to do when I discovered people could say words that would go into my ears meaning nothing.
Margaret Atwood
Born 1939, Canada
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