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You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

Alec Waugh

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Alec Waugh
Age: 83 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 8
Died: 1981
Died: September 3
Novelist
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Hampstead Village
Alexander Raban Waugh
Maj. Alexander Raban Waugh
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