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I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Sighed
Fleeting
Despair
Happiness
Moments
Together
Necklace
Life
Strung
Necklaces

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