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I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.

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Kate Morton
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Berri
South Australia
Australia
Interesting
Clever
Whatever
Adventure
Free
Independent
Comes
Meet
Mean
Along
Things
Feet
Never
Open
People
Heard
Sweeps

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