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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Practically
Grandmother
Learned
Suffering
Everything
Love

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