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Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Margaret Mitchell

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Margaret Mitchell
Age: 48 †
Born: 1900
Born: November 9
Died: 1949
Died: August 16
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Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Atlanta
Georgia
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
Hate
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Anything
Sixteen
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Vanity
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