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Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

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Gloria Swanson
Age: 84 †
Born: 1899
Born: March 27
Died: 1983
Died: April 4
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Gloria May Josephine Svensson
Gloria Josephine May Swanson
Beautifully
Mixed
Somehow
Death
Life
Sweetly

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