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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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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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