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...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

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
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Doomed
Whenever
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Woman
Men

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