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If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil.
Isabella Bird
Isabella Bird
Isabella Bird
Born: Oct 15, 1831
Died: Oct 7, 1904

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Memories, Women, Old, Seen, Lost, Those, Deformed, Would, Would-Be, Faces, Only, Wrinkled, Shape, Baghdad, Were, Hands, Which, Toil, Prematurely, Figures, Streets

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