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I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.

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Fay Weldon
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 22
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