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I borrowed my friends car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

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Emily Mortimer
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: December 1
Actor
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Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer
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