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Fumesucker

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18. JK Rowling is these days an extremely wealthy woman

Reply to Omar4Dems (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 24, 2013, 12:36 AM

Nov 2013

But at one time she was subsisting on welfare while desperately plotting and writing books, looking for that break.

The break came for Rowling, as it came for Stephen King, another extremely wealthy writer who was once dead broke but it doesn't come for everyone who deserves it.

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