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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Ends
Denial
Doe
Almost
Within
Fighting
Common
Often
Sense
Away

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