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I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.

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Lena Dunham
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: May 13
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