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If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.

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
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Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Atlanta
Georgia
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
Always
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Life
Dread
Losing
Security
Sense
Everything
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