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Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.
Ian Mcewan
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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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Film Producer
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Belfast
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She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.
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