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But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?

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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
Love
Talked
Surely
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