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The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

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Jean Rhys
Age: 88 †
Born: 1890
Born: August 24
Died: 1979
Died: May 14
Novelist
Writer
Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams
Ella Rees Williams
Gradually
Rising
Sea
Outside
Sound
Around
Life
Like
Rumble

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