I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Foo…

Margaret Atwood
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1990). Margaret Atwood: Conversations, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press
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