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Youth is cause, effect is age so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

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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
Youth
Cause
Causes
Thickening
Age
Neck
Necks
Data
Effect
Effects

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