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The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Rose
Empty
Days
Future
Unknowable
Daunting
Succession
Ahead

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