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...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

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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Consumed
Inevitably
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