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For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
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Svetlana Alliluyeva
Age: 85 †
Born: 1926
Born: February 28
Died: 2011
Died: November 22
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