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I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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