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What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
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