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No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

Fay Weldon

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