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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

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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
Great
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World
Rest
Television
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Child
Living
Children
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