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Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
People
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Wish
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