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Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! Thank you for all the lovely, brilliantly written stories! -
Happy birthday, dear Mac!
Happy birthday!!!!
A bit belated, but heartfelt "Many happy returns" to one of my favourite writers, a builder of worlds and a magician weaving words to make us fall in love, fear for, get angry at and dream of Lee, Bran and so many others. -
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Happy Birthday! -
Позор
Originally posted by daisyboy at Позор
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Тут между делом выяснилось, что у Ю.Норштейна не хватает денег на то, чтобы закончить свою новую работу "Шинель". На государство в таких случаях, понятно, полагаться бесполезно, и люди подумали скинуться деньгами. Но ЖЖ-юзер gleza оказалась не ленива, и списалась с самим Норштейном. А он ответил вот так:
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