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Grief-stricken. Stricken is right it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground pitched out of life and into something else.
Penelope Lively
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Penelope Lively
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 17
Novelist
Radio Personality
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Cairo
Egypt
Penelope Low
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively
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Ground
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Felled
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Pitched
Life
Stricken
Knocked
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