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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
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