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I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
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Limerick City
Crock
Eyesight
Grey
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Went

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For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.
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Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
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I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.
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I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.
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One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter -The Brightest Star in the Sky.
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What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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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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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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My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
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My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked.I nodded mutely.'That's a bit what giving birth is like.
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It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.
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