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You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Dorchester
Dorset
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Ninth
Eye
Sparkling
Sometimes
Curves
Even
Cheeks
Years
Fifth
Would
Mouth
Mouths
Flit
Eyes
Twelfth

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