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She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Feminist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Alvechurch
Worcestershire
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Sibling
Order
Departure
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Unnatural
Hard
Nothingness
Time
Vicious
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