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This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Belfast
Ireland
Children
Dependence
Adult
Innocent
Adults
Sweet
Pleasure
Newly
Forget
Forgetting
Pain
Ruthless

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