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the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

Mary Stewart

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Mary Stewart
Age: 97 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 17
Died: 2014
Died: May 9
Gymnastics Teacher
Novelist
Poet
Primary School Teacher
Screenwriter
Writer
Newport
Arkansas
Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow
Mary Florence Elinor Stewart
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