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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Anyone
Become
Never
Love
Bitter
Although
Creative

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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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Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.
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I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
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