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Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
Dodie Smith
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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
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Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
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The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.
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The Devil's out of fashion.
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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
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What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
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Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.
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