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Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Jean Rhys

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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
Reduced
Curious
Essentials
Life

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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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