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I am no longer afraid to say anything.

Anna Freud

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Anna Freud
Age: 86 †
Born: 1895
Born: December 3
Died: 1982
Died: October 9
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Vienna
Austria
Longer
Anything
Afraid

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