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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

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Nadine Gordimer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1923
Born: November 20
Died: 2014
Died: July 13
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Scientific Editor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Alone
Moving
Everyone
Ends
Self
Towards

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