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A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Journalist
Novelist
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Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
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