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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
Writer
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
Really
Mound
Sinned
Pause
Repent
Pauses
Deepest
Shame
Going
Repenting

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