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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Men
Drives
Absolutely
Truly
Crazy
Almost
Happy
Woman
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In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
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They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.
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What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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