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We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.

Dodie Smith

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
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