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Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
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Adela Rogers St. Johns
Age: 94 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 20
Died: 1988
Died: August 10
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