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All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Belfast
Ireland
Certainty
Lays
Ahead
Lifetime
Needed
Love
Reassurance
Hurry

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