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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

Anne Bronte

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Anne Bronte
Age: 29 †
Born: 1820
Born: January 17
Died: 1849
Died: May 28
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Novelist
Poet
Thornton
West Yorkshire
Acton Bell
Ann Brontë
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Annie Bronte
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Slightest
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Shrinks
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