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There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.

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
Wake
Loving
Except
Chance
Sense
Someone
Never

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