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Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

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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
Hope
Heartache
Cannot
Cure
Home
Cures
Everything
Except
Feel
Europe
Feels
Cities
Never
Came
Vienna
Lord
Cured

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