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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.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Knowing
Rear
Free
Caused
Hands
Stomach
Seems
Zone
Problem
Nearly
Life
Size
Moorings
Broken
Wringing
Hand
Roam

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