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Now they were as strangers nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Steventon
Hampshire
Strangers
Stranger
Worse
Become
Never
Estrangement
Unison
Acquainted

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