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That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.

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
Hardly
Naked
Needed
Already
Boys
Face
Faces
Impenetrable
Mask

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