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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
Things
Hub
Partly
Marry
Fiction
Keep
Women

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