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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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Zelda Fitzgerald
Age: 47 †
Born: 1900
Born: July 24
Died: 1948
Died: March 10
Artist
Autobiographer
Dancer
Journalist
Novelist
Painter
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Montgomery
Alabama
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Something
Moons
Dreamy
Vibrate
Shadows
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Shadow
Moon
Vibrates
Dying
Dusky

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