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I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
Someone
Stories
Mortified
Hopelessly
Prospect
Trapped
Becoming
Story
Else

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