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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Nothing
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Thoughts
Came
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