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The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
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Limerick City
Anyone
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Breathe
Pass
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Waiting

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