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If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!

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Diana Wynne Jones
Age: 76 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 16
Died: 2011
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Diana Gwyneth Jones
Must
Never
Life
Kissed
Lady
Wrong
Beautiful
Young

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