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I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

Dodie Smith

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
Pauses
Deepest
Shame
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Repenting
Really
Mound
Sinned
Pause
Repent

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