I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then …

Margaret Atwood
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I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. ✨ Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead'. Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.
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I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. ✨ Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead'. Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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