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That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

Sebastian Faulks

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Sebastian Faulks
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 20
Broadcaster
Journalist
Novelist
Parodist
Writer
Sebastian Charles Faulks
Sense
Exactly
Something
Reach
Close
Grasped
Beyond
Functioning
Least
Contentment
Maybe
Regular
Sure
Routine
Happiness
Rewards

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