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To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

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Anita Shreve
Age: 71 †
Born: 1946
Born: October 7
Died: 2018
Died: March 29
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
Burden
Terrible
Thought
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Love
Relieved

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