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Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.

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Patricia Wentworth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1877
Born: November 10
Died: 1961
Died: January 28
Fiction Writer
Novelist
Writer
Dora Amy Elles
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