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But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

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Anne McCaffrey
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 1
Died: 2011
Died: November 21
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Anne Inez McCaffrey
Words
Irish
Living
Ireland
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Sentence
Many
Sentences
Love
Speech
Changed
Since
Cadence
Possible
Fullness

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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly the rest is subject to change without notice.
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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