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My box bedroom can only fit a bed and a wardrobe but it was my whole world. My only personal space to think and dream, to cry and laugh and wait until I became old enough to do all the things I wasn't allowed to do.

Cecelia Ahern

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
Things
Laughing
Boxes
Think
Personal
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Wasn
Bed
World
Waiting
Fit
Space
Cry
Dream
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Laugh
Wardrobe
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Bedroom

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