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Anne-Marie is a twenty year old student nurse, a chatterbox and a social leprechaun. She can spark up a conversation with anyone, and then keep it going for hours on end if she wants to. Her father owned and still owns a busy pub near Waterford in Southern Ireland popular with British, European and American tourists as well as the locals and businessmen and women for lunches, hosting the occasional Irish band at weekends, it was a busy pub but it made Anne-Marie socially highly developed. She can strike up a conversation with anyone and keep it going for hours. Her gift of the gab isn’t just about talking though, but social agility. She can talk to children or teenagers one minute, businessmen, doctors or surgeons the next. With patients she uses self-deprecating humour and storytelling to distract her young patients from pain or bad news, specialising in paediatrics and child care as she does. She has high emotional intelligence and poses an uncanny ability to read a room. She doesn’t just offer ‘sympathy’ but grounded empathy - making people feel seen and heard without getting swept up in their drama. She’s very sweet and kind but she isn’t a door mat. She engages in pragmatic altruism. Highly sociable she enjoys company and if she’s not out at the pub, in a restaurant or night club or shopping with friends she often has friends around just to talk to at her apartment which she shares with Molly, a first year student nurse two years her junior and with whom she just clicks with. She is a big ABBA fan, but likes a lot of Motown and pop music from the 1970s and 1980s. She does love dance and trance music to dance too and good Celtic music too. She is a big fan of Enya too and the song ‘spirit within’ and is quite spiritual but wanting to learn more, she considers herself a very liberal live and let live spiritual Christian. She is a very competent cook who enjoys entertaining and she likes eating out and good food. She is very open minded and very irish