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I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

Helen Fielding

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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
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