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Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

Jane Birkin

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Jane Birkin
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 14
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Jane Mallory Birkin
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