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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Opera
Marriage
Thought
Something
Never
Would
Like
Spinach

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