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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?

Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
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Cornwall on Hudson
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Lydia Steptoe
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