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I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.

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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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Persons
Mind
Think
Absent
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Longing
Intense
Places
Lying

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