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They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.
Melina Marchetta
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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
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