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A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

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Josephine Tey
Age: 55 †
Born: 1896
Born: July 25
Died: 1952
Died: February 13
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Elizabeth Mackintosh
Gordon Daviot
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