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I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Death
Longing
Never
Despair
Life
Worse
Like
Constant
Lived
Darkness
Seen
Woman
Rejection

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