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I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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Zelda Fitzgerald
Age: 47 †
Born: 1900
Born: July 24
Died: 1948
Died: March 10
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Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
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