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And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

Lady Gregory

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Lady Gregory
Age: 80 †
Born: 1852
Born: March 5
Died: 1932
Died: May 22
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Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory
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