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The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.
Jamaica Kincaid
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Jamaica Kincaid
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 25
Novelist
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St John's
Elanie Potter Richardson
Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
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