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Age Quote by Zen Cho

“Her opinion is that she did not struggle her way to the august age of forty-three only to have the dignity accorded to her years snatched away from her.” quote by Zen Cho — Download Open image

““Her opinion is that she did not struggle her way to the august age of forty-three only to have the dignity accorded to her years snatched away from her.””

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“Siew Tsin had not given much thought to what happened in the afterlife until the afterlife happened to her.”

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“She had still had the loved child's belief that it would not be allowed for anything too bad to happen to her.”

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