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When i was 13 or 14, i started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.
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When I Was 13 Or 14, I

Mark Haddon
When i was 13 or 14, i started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.
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