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I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Believe
People
Unlike
Depression
Illness
Legs
Broken
Better

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