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Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
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Christmas
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What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.
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Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there.
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