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No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

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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