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Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

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
Love
Bills
Pay
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Another
Nature
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