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A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

Helen Rowland

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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
Humorist
Journalist
Away
May
Crawls
Men
Flees
Overtake
Cheerful
Temptation
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Woman

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