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Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.
Lionel Shriver
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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Journalist
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Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
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