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The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
Doesn
Embarrassed
Truth
Awkward
Feel
Vulnerable
Feels
Red
Face
Faces
Petrified
Free
Horrified
Makes
Defenseless

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