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There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Emma Forrest

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Emma Forrest
Age: 47
Born: 1976
Born: December 26
Film Director
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
London
England
Perfectly
Guilt
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Good
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