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I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)

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Maria Semple
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: May 21
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
Santa Monica
California
Maria Keogh Semple
Stomach
Belong
Huge
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Talk
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Antarctica
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Knot
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