In my eighties, my best fri... by Mary Wesley, a British Novelist

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“In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.”

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Mary Wesley

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Name: Mary Wesley

Nationality: British

Date of Birth: Jun 24, 1912

Date of Death: Dec 30, 2002

Profession: Novelist

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In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

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