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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
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