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After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Washes
Counts
Neck
Necks
Throat

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