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Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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
Clothes
Buyers
Pieces
Anonymity
Inside
Clothings
Wish
Clothing
Nervous
Thus
Exhibitionism
Piece
Buyer
Battle
Concealment

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