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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
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Heathen
Unpopular
Literature
Everyone
Else
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School

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