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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
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I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
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