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The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Journalist
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Writer
Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
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