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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

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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
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Taxi
Sat
Stranger
Silence

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