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Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

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
Overlook
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Spouse
Tender
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