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The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

Mary Balogh

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Mary Balogh
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
Novelist
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Abertawe
Loneliness
Brings
Lonely
Oneself
Worst
Face
Faces
Thing

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