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It was about then [1920] that i wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "she was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It Was About Then [1920] That I

F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was about then [1920] that i wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "she was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
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