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She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.

Cecelia Ahern

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
Something
Inside
Underneath
Loved
Settings
Impossible
Setting
Beautiful
Tasks
Sometimes
Ugly
Heart
Perfection
Thing
Prove
Strived
Every
Ones
Seemingly

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