“On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.”

— Maeve Binchy

When asked in 1995 how she would like to die. guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/1995/jul/22/fiction.maevebinchy?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

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