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Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.
Jane Gardam
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Jane Gardam
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 11
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Coatham
North Yorkshire
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