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Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.

Nan Fairbrother

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Nan Fairbrother
Age: 58 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 17
Died: 1971
Died: January 1
Environmentalist
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