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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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