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What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind ships were free when they were torn from their moorings men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.

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Radclyffe Hall
Age: 63 †
Born: 1880
Born: August 12
Died: 1943
Died: October 7
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall
Margaret Radclyffe Hall
Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall
Home
Trees
Uprooted
Thing
Hunger
Starve
Men
Wind
Perish
Terrible
Torn
Cold
Homes
Tree
Ships
Freedom
Cast
Free
Casts
Moorings

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