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I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
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I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
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Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.
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Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
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Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.
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