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But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
Writer
London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Tears
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Things
Thicken
Dissipation
Features
Grief

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