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I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

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Sophie Kinsella
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 12
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Madeleine Wickham
Madeleine Sophie Wickham
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Floating
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Occasions
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Dandelion
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Fluff
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