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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

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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
Leisure
Mary
Send
Quite
Young
Come
Men
Kitty
Kitties

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