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I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

Nigella Lawson

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Nigella Lawson
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 6
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London
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Nigella Lucy Lawson
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