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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.

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
Poet
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Writer
Montgomery
Alabama
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
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Beggars
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