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of the nineteenth century
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so much so that I was struck-- I came upon this recently.
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Charles Dickens--
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and you don't think of Dickens and Paris hilton
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in the same sentence normally
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but Charles Dickens in faraway England at this time
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noticed that Marie duplessis in Paris when she died--
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and she died at the shockingly young age of twenty-three--
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when she died,
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Dickens said the following:
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"You would have thought her passing
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was a question of life and death