“The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons.”

—  Eoin Colfer

Source: The Eternity Code

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Irish author of children's books 1965

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