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Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which 'to catch up with myself' I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.
Miss Read
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Miss Read
Age: 26 †
Born: 1913
Born: April 17
Died: 1940
Died: April 7
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London
England
Dora Jessie Saint
Dora Saint
Dora Jessie Shafe
Dora Shafe
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