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" Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it. "

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" I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. "

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" It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. "

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