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It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Discovered
Cry
Tears
Cutting
Sting
Water
Cuts
Made
Crying
Ran
Salt

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