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I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!

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Emily Bronte
Age: 30 †
Born: 1818
Born: July 30
Died: 1848
Died: December 19
Novelist
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Thornton
West Yorkshire
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Emily Jane Brontë
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