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Margaret Atwood Quotes: We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
         

We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.


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