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I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Meeting
Drumming
Meetings
Indicate
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Choices
Wraps
Better
Impatience
Done
Dynamic
Different
Nails
Staff
Scaring

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