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I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
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Limerick City
People
Ditch
Dinner
Party
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Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
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