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The entertainment and the enjoyment you get at a live j. Requisite authentic hologram present and in excellent condition. Rowling was born was joanne rowling in yate, the united kingdom on july 31, 1965. She appreciates fan mail, but since she receives so much of it, she has asked that it all be sent via her publishers. She wrote the story rabbit when she was six and her first novel at. She is best known for writing the harry potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the bestselling book. Rowlings first novel for adults is set in the fictional town of pagford, an area where the gap between the haves and the have nots grows ever wider with each passing day.
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