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" When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor. "

John Rhys-Davies

Facts

History

Mother

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Screw

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