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To be married is to be neither alone nor together.

Natalie Clifford Barney

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Natalie Clifford Barney
Age: 95 †
Born: 1876
Born: October 31
Died: 1972
Died: February 2
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Salonnière
Writer
Dayton
Ohio
Neither
Married
Alone
Together

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