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Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.

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
Evolution
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