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It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?

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Jean Rhys
Age: 88 †
Born: 1890
Born: August 24
Died: 1979
Died: May 14
Novelist
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Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams
Ella Rees Williams
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Sunlight
Afternoon
Strange
Think

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