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Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

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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
Hot
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Never
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Father
Alcoholic
Wells
Alcoholics
Come

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