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That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

Cecelia Ahern

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
Thing
Always
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