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All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.
Carolyn Wells
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Carolyn Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1862
Born: June 18
Died: 1942
Died: March 26
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