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I do what many dream of, all their lives

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Lives
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Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her
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