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I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.

Cecelia Ahern

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
Novelist
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Television Producer
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Dublin city
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