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We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Belfast
Ireland
Social
Submerged
Littles
Selves
Little
Ice
Self
Mostly
Like
Visible
Cool
Lying
White
Projecting

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