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I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city it is as if I had become invisible.

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Storm Jameson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 8
Died: 1986
Died: September 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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Happy
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Never
Happier
Foreign
Invisible
City

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