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Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.

Anne Enright

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