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What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?

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
Time
Patterns
Intestines
Opening
Millennia
Dead
Loaded
Feet
Contain
Stars
Expanding
Universe
Guts
Three
Twenty
Light
Twenties

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