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What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

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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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Anything
Hidden
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