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My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Evelyn Waugh

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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
Despise
Equally
Affection
Seven
Daughter
Second
Mother
Waned
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Unhealthy

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