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I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Born
House
Prone
Despair
Personality
Afraid
Leave
Particular

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