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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
Author
Autobiographer
Librettist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
Scoundrels
Traitor
Honesty
Often
Truth
Doe
Made
Time

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