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Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Able
Writing
Every
Wake
Afraid
Write
Left
Today

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