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The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

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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
Youth
Takes
Stuff
Stills
Malleable
Young
Impressions
Still
Impression
Much
Vulnerable
Warm

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