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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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