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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Nostalgia
Mad
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Sweet

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