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Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything.
Banana Yoshimoto
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Banana Yoshimoto
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 24
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Bunkyo
Yoshimoto Banana
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