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Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Approach
Learning
Waiting
Wrong
Better
Live

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