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Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Writer
Dorchester
Dorset
Beheld
Gravitation
Nobody
Two

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