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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
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- Jeanette Winterson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1959; activity date not established; Wikidata Q233584, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233584 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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