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If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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