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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
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