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Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted

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Cecelia Ahern
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: September 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Dublin city
Mark
Lungs
Insides
Lives
Floating
Distressed
Around
Users
Stamped
Soul
Spot
Piles
Hundreds
Sucked
Spots
Deserted
Outsides
Souls
Frenzy
Panicked
Ground
Dropped
Butts

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