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I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

Lynne Truss

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Lynne Truss
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 31
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Kingston
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